Peter Althin, who represented Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, is demanding a retrial after it was revealed that the judge who presided over the case is a member of the same copyright-protection organizations as lawyers for the entertainment industry.

The judge, Tomas Norström, is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, as are Henrik Pontén, Peter Danowsky and Monique Wadsted, lawyers for the entertainment industry in the case. Norström is also on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.

But he claims those affiliations don't constitute a conflict of interest and says they didn't affect his judgment.